...there was a schlub named Jude who could see dead people and a hustler named Cecilia angling for her slice of the American dream. When they met, sparks flew (different sparks fly now). They got married, had a kid, and combined their talents into a real estate agency called RED LIGHT PROPERTIES, offering "previously-haunted" homes at below-market prices to folks who could never otherwise afford one.

But the good vibes don't always last, do they? In order to clear a space of lingering spirits, Jude requires heroic doses of psychedelics on the daily to penetrate The Membrane separating the spirit world from ours... leaving him forever straddling his shamanic higher reality and the reptile-brain dystopia of American capitalism.

Which leaves Cecilia holding the bag with like, everything else: finding clients, closing contracts, the emotional labor of holding their family together, and... you see where this is going. Family businesses always suck... but this family business is the stuff of actual supernatural nightmares. IN FLORIDA.

Then there's their actual Work: every exorcism is a kind of time-travel, each ghost a person who can't let go of a world that moved on without them. 

This makes every ghost story a human canvas to work out deep ideas: love, loss, consciousness, intimacy, climate gentrification, Yoruba gods, real Florida history, clairvoyance as neurodiversity, the memory of buildings, demonic thought-forms driving our civilization’s self-cannibalism and yes OK I'm ranting (a little) but hopefully you're starting to see how different, how RIGHT NOW the vibe of RLP is.

I call RED LIGHT PROPERTIES a “tropical horror” series: less Ghostbusters, more Better Call Saul meets The Shining, but with hyper-local Florida flavor. It's scary, sweaty, druggy, horny, schmucky, greasy, and powered by a beating human heart. 

My heart: because RLP is 100% produced by me, every storyline, brush stroke & pixel.

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"Hilarious... A druggy blast inspired by Goldman's heroes like Terence McKenna, Larry David and Wong Kar-Wai." — Wired.com

Back in 2010, I launched Red Light Properties, my psychedelic exorcist comic series about haunted Miami real estate, on Tor Books' site with an experimental interface where serialized content there for a year before moving to its own ComicPress site.

Digital single-issues from back in the day, released on Comixology.

Several years later, the first major arc was published as a trade paperback by IDW:

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"Goldman's ghost stories made the hairs on the back of my neck prickle, while the bawdy slapstick interludes served only to lure me into dropping my guard for the next scare. Highly recommended." — Cory Doctorow
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“Dan Goldman’s RED LIGHT PROPERTIES elevates creator-owned comics to another level. It’s incomparable in ambition, extraordinary in concept, and executed masterfully by a single mind.” – Bloody Disgusting

It was also published in Portuguese by Plot!:

But there was always a plan for more. Please stay tuned to my newsletter and socials for news about RLP's imminent return! 👻

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"Cartoonist Dan Goldman made a splash with his work on the political graphic novels Shooting War and 08. [This is] his real labor of love, the story of a Florida real estate exorcist that mixes the supernatural with the current real estate crisis." — Publisher's Weekly